Sold 1972 Austin 1100 - SOLD

[3VOM]

Wasn't 1400-ish a common overbore?

[alcyonecorporation]

Wasn't 1400-ish a common overbore?

 

 

1380cc was the Metro Turbo block I think. Then again I know literally sod all about PROPER BRITISH CLASSICS. 

[somewhatfoolish]

Arden 8 port head? Noice.

[Felly Magic]

Whatever Angyl does with this purple beast, we know it will be top. This is proper My Summer Car without the annoying tasks

[tooSavvy]

Arden 8 port head? Noice.

 

TreddDrift WARNING ***

 

Forever, it seems, the 8 Port IMP has been needing a X-Flow design. A lad on IMP Forum got a Bike head rigged up but discovered the BMW K1100 Bike engine goes straight in.... RIP Cov Climax...

 

As You Were.... 

 

 

TS

[Timewaster]

1380cc was the Metro Turbo block I think. Then again I know literally sod all about PROPER BRITISH CLASSICS.

They were 1275cc but could be overbored to 1380cc before things start getting a bit too thin.

[Parky]

The 1275 would be a good option, the VTEC amazing, but surely the answer is to transplant a 1500 e-series from the Maxi a la Morris Nomad to keep it in the family?

 

VAGUEASHELLGEARSHIFTYO!1!1!1!1!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

All 1100's have front discs. Mark 1's had a solid two piston calliper, Mark 2's had single piston sliding callipers, twin carb Mark 2 stuff had a servo as well.

[SiC]

I'm so glad to see this is being saved.

 

I can't help myself but ask, when is this going to be for sale?

[somewhatfoolish]

The 1275 would be a good option, the VTEC amazing, but surely the answer is to transplant a 1500 e-series from the Maxi a la Morris Nomad to keep it in the family?

 

VAGUEASHELLGEARSHIFTYO!1!1!1!1!

The E's a tall old lump; would it fit under the bonnet?

[Parky]

Cut a hole in it

[catsinthewelder]

That would ruin the paintwork.

 

 

 

[vulgalour]

UPDATE TIME.

 

You know I like to deal with all the important things on a car first, that's why it now has a boot badge.

20170721-01 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

New fuel filter too, since the old one was a bit brown.

20170721-02 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Then I spent what seemed like forever with a combination of spotweld cutters, cutting disc and flapwheel getting all the metal off that I would be replacement with new stuff.  This in turn revealed the rot that needed repairing in the bulkhead which could have been done from inside the car, it's just this way is easier because of all the extra work that's being done.

20170721-03 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Yet another check of the inner wing repair panel to be absolutely certain there's enough, and there is.  I need to clean this all back before I put the replacement trumpet on and it should be easier to do that off the car and then put the whole thing on the car in one go.

20170721-04 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

I also pulled off the wing stay with the intention of repairing it.  Unfortunately, it's a bit far gone so I'll have to replace it.

20170721-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Once the extent of the rot on the bulkhead was explored, I carefully moved the wiring loom out of the way and set to with the angle grinder, taking my time being sure to make it a nice neat cut.

20170721-06 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

A nice neat cut STRAIGHT THROUGH THE WIRING LOOM.  FFS.

20170721-07 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

I'm not fixing that today, it can wait until later.  Lesson for next time is that I ought to tie wrap wires out of the way so they don't spring back to their old place.  Anyway, new patch made, welded in and cleaned up.

20170721-08 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Nice splosh of zinc primer and paint later and it's looking far better.

20170721-09 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

I wasn't paying much attention to time today, so I ran over my alloted time quite a lot.  That's why I then went on to chop the rotten corner off the wing so that I could weld a better piece in off the spare wing.  There's a few niggly little patches to finish off here and there before filler and paint, it's not a beautiful job but it'll do.

20170721-10 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

20170721-11 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

We shall see what I end up doing over the weekend... probably fixing those wires I chopped through.

[Parky]

That's annoying about the loom! At least that's an easy repair

 

Re the E Series, the front end of a Nomad appears to be the same so a 1500 E series would fit. Metalwork and sub frames would be different but all Vulg needs to do is find a Maxi or Allegro and rob its engine and box, redesign and rebuild sub frames and inner wings, engineer a proper gearchange mechanism, and voila, all done!

 

If he starts now, it'll be ready Sunday

 

Leyland "E" Series - the thinking mans VTEC

[Mr Laurence]

I still can't believe how fast this project's moving along. It's going to be a great car when it's done

[vulgalour]

You and me both on the speediness.  Been paid while I've been working on the car so I've ordered that clutch slave cylinder I needed and a pair of new headlight bowl gaskets.  I need to order some new plastic headlight bowls too, just need to wait a few more days for an invoice to be paid first.  Then it'll be the expensive stuff like tyres and sill panels.

[purplebargeken]

Will Landie one's suffice?

[vulgalour]

Could be a bit on the big side for the tyres  But yes, Landrover, MGB, etc headlight bowls all fit.  They're not expensive particularly, and pretty much everything 7" headlight wise is easy to get.  The car's still sporting sealed beam headlights and, until they go pop, I'll be keeping those so I don't have to fork out for a halogen upgrade.

[MorrisItalSLX]

RE the E series, The Nomad/1500 had a different "Humped" bonnet to accommodate the engine

 

 

In regards to a 1275 A series lump, rape it out of a Mini as payback for all the Metros that have died for their engine

[junkyarddog]

I think pretty much anyone that has welded up and old car has nipped the loom at some point

 

Personally speaking,I would weld that inner repair panel in first,then weld on the trumpet.

As it would be easier to make adjustments to both while they are still separate.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I think pretty much anyone that has welded up and old car has nipped the loom at some point

 

Personally speaking,I would weld that inner repair panel in first,then weld on the trumpet.

As it would be easier to make adjustments to both while they are still separate.

 

 

Don't worry, Vulg welded that panel on and dressed the welds with a grinder in the time it took you you to type that post.

 

At the speed he's going, he'll be back in 1972 Longbridge building it.

 

Bostin'.

[DodgeRover]

This thread is making me happy carry on please

[Parky]

Maybe Vulg could use his trip to 1972 to pop up to Harris Manns office and discuss the merits of BMW 2002 rear lights for the Princess. That would save him a job in the future...

 

My God Angyl, that's the Allegro? WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!!!!!!

[vulgalour]

Personally speaking,I would weld that inner repair panel in first,then weld on the trumpet.

As it would be easier to make adjustments to both while they are still separate.

Normally, yes, this is the way I'd go about this repair. However, when the trumpet piece was removed it's left the spotweld points as holes in the panel which I need to re-use to attach the trumpet. Since you can't get to all of these holes from the engine bay side with the wing in place, it has to be done off the car first unless I faff about cutting tiny little circles of metal and welding them in to fill the holes in the repair panel.

 

Plan is to clamp both panels together and possibly tack weld to keep everything aligned, then weld them together off the car before drill new spotweld holes for the bulkhead join and getting the whole lot attached to the car. Once I'm over the hurdle of this inner wing, that's the worst of the fabrication jobs done, especially now the corner of that front wing is replaced.

[vulgalour]

Right, I'm taking tomorrow off.  I'm knackered.  Let's see what I got up to today, shall we?  That bleb on the passenger sill was explored, it wasn't actually much of anything, just a scruffy weld presumably to bridge a little hole.

20170722-01 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

It's what was underneath that was the problem.  Fortunately, I've got a big enough section of outer sill to sort this out.  Eventually, it wants a full outer sill fitting this side, I'll save that for when/if I buy new front wings in the future.

20170722-02 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

To offset that unexpected find, I cleaned back and inspected the boot repair and found that it was, overall, not too bad.  There wasn't really anything to gain by cutting it all out and doing it again so I flattened off the welds and applied some more welding where required.  Then flattened everything off again, gave it a good dose of seam sealer (which I'll do on the other side too, which incidentally has some welds of serviceable quality too), primed and painted.  This did take rather longer than I made that sound, especially since it's not the most comfortable bit of car to be working on.  Didn't have any Harvest Gold so for now it's just black, I'll go over the interior of the boot with green to match the cabin once I've done all the repair work back here.

20170722-03 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Chased out some pinholes I'd noticed on the headlamp repair section before flatting that back ready for a little bit of filler and paint.  Also found the missing part of the donor wing for this side, a piece I'd previously dismissed as random scrap, so that saved a lot of time on the lower wing repair.  Used some fresh steel to bridge the gap where both donor and original wing had rotted out.

20170722-04 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

20170722-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

Repaired a couple of smaller holes on the original wing where it meets the corner section at the front and I've still got a couple to do underneath which I'll find easier when the car is up on the lift.  For now, those areas that were ready got some filler and then everything got a dose of primer partly to tidy things up, partly because the car may have to go outside next week at short notice and I don't want it sitting outside in bare metal (I know primer isn't much better, but it's better than nothing).  It needs work on the filler to be ready for paint but is very close now

20170722-06 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

The other boot corner that I need to do work on isn't too terrible.  I was tempted to do it today but I ran out of steam when I realised how fiddly and time-consuming some of it is going to be to put right.  With the exception of the driver's front corner, the welding that remains really needs the car to be on the lift to sort out.  I'm not especially looking forward to replacing the front floor pan, but needs must.

 

Finally, can anyone identify these?  They don't seem to naturally fit anywhere and while they look similar to the engine/ignition cover, they don't seem right for that application. They also seem to be handed but are nothing to do with boot interior trim or inner wing guards so far as I can work out, which is where I would have expected this sort of shaped thing to go.

20170722-07 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

[Rusty_Rocket]

They are ignition shields, but most likely from a late 80s Mini (or mid 70s Clubman!). 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Great to see it shaping up. Just a thought - you've done all that work to the nearside wing... won't the trumpet and inner wing area be in a similar state to the offside? Just thinking about how mud tends to hit the nearside more heavily?

Keep up the good work

[vulgalour]

I have no doubt it'll be a similar story.  I'll fix it when/if I buy new wings in the future since it's a wing-off job to sort it out properly.  It's also quite expensive to buy all the panels required (for my budget, anyway) so I want to stockpile the needed panels before doing it and that's going to take time.  For now, if I don't poke it then it's not a problem.

[catsinthewelder]

An old boy with a 60's Cadillac gave me those together with the spare sill and bumpers,  I'd noticed they were different to the taped up original so put them in the boot and forgot about them.  At least the sill has proved useful.

[purplebargeken]

Outstanding progress! Can't wait to see this finished.